The bags proved insufficient to mask the smell of marijuana in a car stopped Thursday night for a vehicle infraction on Highway 101 north of Willits, however.

A sheriff?s deputy noted a strong odor coming from inside while questioning the driver, a Windsor man named Nathan Kirk, 24, authorities said.

The deputy ultimately found five, one-gallon oven-roasting bags, each containing about a pound of processed marijuana bud, Smallcomb said.

A day earlier, authorities found numerous garbage bags containing bud-filled oven-roasting bags in the cab and bed of a full-sized pickup truck left behind by fleeing suspects as authorities headed into federal forestlands near Covelo to eradicate marijuana growing there.

On Thursday night, deputies near Willits seized a large amount of cash, an electronic scale, a heat-sealing machine and other materials commonly used to package marijuana in the car driven by Kirk, the sheriff?s office said.

He and his passenger, Jared Osburn, 26, of Tucson, Ariz., were arrested for suspected transportation of marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale.